When you hear words or phrases repeated in a speech, what can you assume?

a. the words or phrases represent the speaker’s opinion.
b. the words or phrases are main ideas in the speech.
c. the speaker is trying to make the speech seem longer.
d. the speaker has forgotten what he or she meant to say.

When first i engaged in this work, i resolved to leave neither words nor things unexamined, and myself with a prospect of the hours which i should revel away in feasts of literature . . –preface to a dictionary of the english language, samuel johnson what is the connotation of the word revel in this passage?

The author most likely uses the word monstrous rather than the word “unpleasant” because it has a more positive connotation than the word “unpleasant.” a more negative connotation than the word “unpleasant.” a more neutral connotation than the word “unpleasant.” almost the same connotation as the word “unpleasant.”

What can the reader infer about the fears and values of the ancient greeks based on this description of the cyclops’s island?